CANADA SEES FILM BIZ PICK UP
Thursday, January 8 2004
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While noting that "for steady work, the last thing you want to be now is a gaffer, grip or cameraman" in Canada these days, the Toronto Sun reported today (Thursday) that several Hollywood projects are scheduled to begin filming in Toronto in the coming weeks, featuring such names as Sean Penn, Jennifer Connelly, Russell Crowe, Ron Howard, Dylan McDermott and Britney Spears. Nevertheless, the Sun commented, "whether this heralds a turning tide [in Toronto's film industry] remains to be seen." Most worrisome, the newspaper noted, is the continuing rise of the Canadian dollar against the American. U.S. producer Rick Bieber, whose film Aurora Borealis recently wrapped, told the Sun that the exchange rate still represents "a good deal, but we would have saved a lot of money if we'd been able to start filming a few months earlier."
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